Thursday, 29 June 2017

Epidemiology of Fatal Electrocutions in Japan 1992 to 1996


international journal of systems biology and biomedical technologies
Electrical installation occasionally becomes the source of electrical accidents. The number of electrical, fatal accidents will exceed 8,000 fatalities by 2040-2050 in Japan. The reason is that electrically related fatal accidents have ranged from 10 to 20 fatalities annually, in recent years. The total number of electrically fatal accidents totaled 482 fatalities in 1961. Overall, electrically fatal accidents can be decreased by improving the operational safety. However, the complete prevention of fatal accidents by electric shock is not easy. The reason is that there are more than 60 million workers for all industries, 15 million of whom are in the construction and manufacturing industries. A new approach toward preventative measures for electrically fatal accidents is required because of such conditions. In this paper, 190 case studies of electrically fatal accidents from 1992 to 1996 are analyzed by the fatality rate.